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Sorry And here's your smoke du jour brought to you

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by verb tenses because verb relaxes just weren't feeling up

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to it Yeah How do you correct the following sentence

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If it needs correcting it all Jackson a his birthday

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cake after his family saying happy birthday to him aren't

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here no answer this question correctly We have to be

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cool with verb tenses which can be hard These guys

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are up today is first on our agenda What we

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have here is an example of past Perfect tense right

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here We can spot this tense easily because it uses

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helping words like had or have when talking about the

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past The other thing to know about past perfect is

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that it's used to refer to something that happened before

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something else in the past He little timeline here this

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happen before this This letter says cross off choice eh

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Since the sentence clearly tells us that jackson devoured his

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cake after his family saying not before So hopefully he

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also waited till after he blew out his candles No

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one likes a birthday spent in the burn ward Pretty

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We can eliminate choice be pretty easily the word had

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tips us off right away that it's trying to be

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past perfect which we already know we don't need this

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one's extra wrong though because i had eight is an

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incorrect conjugation congregations or the different forms that verbs take

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as they shift from one tends to another this one's

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bad because we can never say had eight they only

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say had eaten if you want to see a verb

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tense get even tenser homes trying using bad congregation choice

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he gives us the present perfect which contrary to what

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we might think also refers to things that happened in

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the past Yeah english it's so weird The president perfect

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is on ly used when we don't know exactly when

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something happened For example we might say someone has eaten

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all the cake and then we would probably find that

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someone and make him pay like cake present Perfect doesn't

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work here though because we know jackson ate the cake

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after the song Sure that's not particularly specific either but

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it's Too definite of a timeline for present Perfect The

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best choice here is d the original sentence uses the

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simple past and in this case it's all we need

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Well we need that slice of the cake We keep

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hearing about lots of milk Yeah got shmoop Um

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